Open

O or OPEN may refer to:

Recorded music

Interior Design

Interior Design is an American interior design magazine. For over 80 years, the Interior Design network has been a global leading design publication, website and host of special events to designers around the world. Interior Design magazine (published by Sandow), helps shape smart and booming businesses with a strong desire for innovation and design. This magazine has been an important resource for professional designers and is demonstrated throughout their work in projects as well as their design process. The Interior Design's events have connected with the industry by stimulating creativity, leadership, innovation and collaboration through a variety of practices and programs. Interior Design is the finest resource for significant content for the industry's artists and designers, and will only continue to be.

Editors have included Donald D. Macmillan;Sherman R. Emery, from 1960 to 1983; and Stanley Abercrombie.

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Living room

In Western architecture, a living room, also called a lounge room, lounge or sitting room, is a room in a residential house or apartment for relaxing and socializing. Such a room is sometimes called a front room when it is near the main entrance at the front of the house. In large formal homes, a sitting room is often a small private living area adjacent to a bedroom, such as the Queen's Sitting Room and the Lincoln Sitting Room of the White House. The term living room was coined in the late 19th or early 20th century.

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In homes that lack a parlour or drawing room, the living room may also function as a reception room.

A typical Western living room may contain furnishings such as a sofa, chairs, occasional tables, coffee tables, bookshelves, electric lamps, rugs, or other furniture. Traditionally, a sitting room in the United Kingdom and New Zealand has a fireplace, dating from when this was necessary for heating. In a Japanese sitting room, called a washitsu, the floor is covered with tatami, sectioned mats, on which people can sit comfortably.

Design

Design is the creation of a plan or convention for the construction of an object or a system (as in architectural blueprints, engineering drawings, business processes, circuit diagrams and sewing patterns). Design has different connotations in different fields (see design disciplines below). In some cases the direct construction of an object (as in pottery, engineering, management, cowboy coding and graphic design) is also considered to be design.

Designing often necessitates considering the aesthetic, functional, economic and sociopolitical dimensions of both the design object and design process. It may involve considerable research, thought, modeling, interactive adjustment, and re-design. Meanwhile, diverse kinds of objects may be designed, including clothing, graphical user interfaces, skyscrapers, corporate identities, business processes and even methods of designing.

Thus "design" may be a substantive referring to a categorical abstraction of a created thing or things (the design of something), or a verb for the process of creation, as is made clear by grammatical context.